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TOK Semester 1
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11th Grade
12/14/2010

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What was Howard Gardner famous for?
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distinct intelligence: musical, bodily-kinesthetic, logical-mathematical, linguistic, spatial, spritual, interpersonal, intrapersonal
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What is intrapersonal intelligence?
Definition
the capacity to understand yourself
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What is interpersonal intelligence?
Definition
the capacity to understand and evaluate the moods of others
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What is cognitivism?
Definition
the belief that emotions contain a set of beliefs, (they are a necessary condition) but must have something else to be considered an "emotion"
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What is the difference between eros, philia, and agape?
Definition
erotic, brotherly, and humanity love
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What is an emotional quotient?
Definition
a term used to describe the degree of control a person has over his or her emotions
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Can intuition be well explained?
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Nope, the very nature means that it is partially beyond explanation
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What is a signifier?
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a sign which conveys meaning
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What do the stoics think of emotion?
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they think humanity should get rid of it entirely, because it causes irrationality, and false values
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What is the "tidal view" paradigm?
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the concept that people can "lose" control because of rage, grief, hatred, etc.
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What did William James suggest about emotion?
Is James correct?
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James suggests that Our emotions do not cause our bodily responses but are in fact caused by them
This isn't quite true:More complex than cause and effect-we cannot separate the emotions from the intellect and knowledge in a simple way
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Define qualia
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what an emotion feels like
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Give an examples of two instinctive emotions and two social emotions.
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instinctive: anger, love,
social: guilt shame
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Describe inward and outward emotions.
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emotions like fear when we are drawn into ourselves;
emotions like wonder, when we are drawn out of ourselves
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Give three arguments against linguistic determinism.
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1. Whorf's argument about "colors" and languages has been countlessly disproven. All human's see colors in the same way, and individuals from languages w/out certain colors have been able to quickly identifiy them within their own language context. 2. Whorf's analysis of Apache to english translations are not only flawed, they also determine little about "words" influencing "thoughst." Whorf jumps from different ways of "speaking" to different ways of "thinking" without thorough analysis.
3. Whorf's analysis of the Inuit people and their multiple words for snow shows is not only false but also doesn't properly support the theory of linguistic determinism. The different number of words doesn't prove the Inuits think differently (Pullman) merely that they classify snow in multiple ways.
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What did John Searle suggest?
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that language is closely tied to human cognition and interaction with the world
we experience things because of linguistics, not the other way around;
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Who put forward the Brown House example? What does it mean/imply?
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Noam Chomsky
Different languages have many different connotations ( we automatically understand brown house to mean brown exterior of the house)
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What did Wittgenstein suggest?
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Language gives us a representation of the world, and the nature of this representation is fundamentally limiting
Words that do not directly correspond to objects do not have any meaning at all
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Define semiotics.
Definition
the study of cultural sign processes analogy, metaphor, signification, and communication
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